Ex-Snyder aide: Financial focus led to crisis in Flint

[safeinOhio]

LANSING — The drinking water catastrophe in Flint is the result of a failed model of trying to run state government like a business, says a former adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder, who also predicted the governor won’t survive a recall vote if the question makes the ballot.

Dennis Schornack, who retired after serving more than three years as a senior adviser on transportation issues to Snyder during his first term, is the first current or former Snyder official to directly criticize the governor and his management style for contributing to the public health crisis.

Schornack said he still believes Snyder is an intelligent leader and "basically a good guy." But, he said, decisions about Flint’s drinking water should have been dictated by science instead of finances and the bottom line.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/22/ex-snyder-aide-financial-focus-led-crisis-flint/80767216/

[Xipe Totec]

1. dictated by science instead of finances. Science is now at war with the new religion - Mammonism

The worship of money.

[longship]

2. Well put, my friend.

I live in rural MI. And Snyder is still a douche.

My best.

[Gothmog]

3. Running govt like a business was not a good idea

[DI Freighter Watcher]

4. Greed

I agree with all you said and if I might add willfully ignorant, they didn't ignore science they just dismissed it in pursuit of profit.

[MichiganVote]

5. Let's keep it simple. Snyder lied. He lied, his aides lied, the DEQ lied, the EPA lied, the EM lied.

They ALL fucking lied. It doesn't take a higher ed. degree to smell a liar. Snyder did lie-to himself, to his aides, to the state and most especially to the residents of Flint.

All the rationale's in the world about business or financials don't remove that central reality. Snyder did lie and now we'll all pay the price. So much for the Republican champions...